WTKR/WGNT, The E.W. Scripps station in Norfolk, Virginia is searching for a Manager of Enterprise Content, who will be responsible for the planning and execution of enterprise news stories across all platforms. This position requires local content vision and strategy to address consumer needs, content standards, delivery, quality control and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate understands the logistics, deadlines and inner workings of the newsroom and will further our station’s mission to tell stories that are important to the people who live, work and play in Coastal Virginia and Northeast North Carolina. When you’re not coordinating impactful journalism, you can enjoy the beautiful beaches, harbors, parks and hiking trails our community offers, with more than 210 days of sunshine each year!

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Collaborates with other newsroom managers to leverage the Scripps content strategy as the foundation for market-specific local content strategy. Within the strategy, this position has specific attention on leading a team of people to regularly and reliably produce targeted enterprise and investigative stories of impact and importance to our community.

• Partners with colleagues to plan daily and future stories for publication on all platforms, including working closely with anchors, reporters, photojournalists, assignment desk and managers on story development and logistics.

• Responsible for keeping the planned content calendar up to date to ensure shoot, write and edit deadlines are met.

• Creates strategies, tactics and measurements to ensure the quality and quantity of the stories our journalists produce meet our standards and drive audience to all our platforms, including identifying and tracking follow up stories.

• Works with the team to ensure advance planning is in alignment with daily needs to address real-time news.

• Works closely with Scripps legal counsel to ensure stories, teases, social posts and all other related elements are vetted for accuracy and legal.

• Monitors all product on all platforms for compliance to federal, state and local laws as well as First and Fourteenth Amendments, and trains staff to do the same.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

• Bachelors degree in Journalism or related field preferred.

• 3 years of experience in digital media, journalism, broadcast or a closely-related field preferred.

• 2 years of supervisory experience preferred.

• Linked to local market at some point in background is preferred.

• Experience conceiving and executing multi-platform projects is preferred.

• Experience leading content creation teams on a minimum of 2 platforms preferred.

• Experience acquiring audience with a demonstrated pattern or track record of success preferred.

• Experience managing brand preferred.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Journalism: Skilled storyteller, journalistic ethics and libel.

• Working knowledge of television ratings.

• Advanced oral and written communication skills.

• Must be organized, able to multi-task, adapt to developing situations quickly and thrive under deadline pressure.

• Working knowledge of all media platforms and broad understanding of broadcast newsroom operations and equipment.

• Calm under pressure: able to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

• Customer focus: understands customer needs, raises the bar on customer service, develops unified approach to exceed customer expectations.

• Very strong collaborator: involves others in problem solving and decision making, asks for and considers an array of perspectives, comfortable relying on the expertise of others and joint decision making.

• Manage execution: setting expectations, delegating, facilitating, removing barriers, measuring performance, and fostering accountability/recognition.

• Engage and inspire at all levels: create environment where people feel appreciated, and valued, are committed and want to excel, and want to define opportunities to improve the organization.

• Manage conflict: Constructive in working through differences, handles recurrent conflict, resolves issues between employees, preserves relationships.

• Decision making: Ties decisions to strategy, uses sound logic, makes decisions at the right time, brings others into decision making process, chooses the best alternative.

• Coach: Continuously cultivates capabilities by asking the right questions and equipping staff with tools, knowledge and opportunities they need to develop themselves.

• Delegation: is clear about lines of responsibility, allows staff to make mistakes, offers guidance without taking over, enables team to manage daily operation of their teams.